> > * Gentoo's plan9port also sets DEPEND="x11-apps/xauth". Is xauth a > > build or runtime dependency? > > I think it would be a runtime dependency, xauth pulls in all the X11 > libraries so you can X forward the GUIs from a headless machine. On the > other hand, most of my binaries seem to be statically linked, so I'm not > sure.
i think it's neither. xauth is an application. and the x libraries are not staticly linked: ; ldd sam linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff9d4a3000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007ff821485000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00007ff821282000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007ff821067000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007ff820d18000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007ff821706000) - erik